Category: News
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The Imagineer of Wasteland: Epic Mickey’s Warren Spector
The highly anticipated new Wii video game, Disney Epic Mickey, was recently released. With this game, Warren Spector, Epic Mickey’s creator, looked to create the video game equivalent of a Pixar film – entertainment for everyone. Spector is well known and respected in the gaming world for creating popular video game series such as Wing Commander…
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Disneyland Gems: Holidays at Disneyland!
I can’t believe it’s that time of year again. The joy of the winter holidays are by far my absolute favorite time of the year and how they celebrate them at the Disneyland Resort is one of the things that keeps me wanting to go back each and every year. And now – Disneyland has…
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Video: Miss Hawaii Discusses Aulani, Disney’s New Oahu Resort
Construction rolls on for the stand alone Disney Vacation Club property Aulani in the Ko Olina resort area of Oahu, Hawaii. Back in August, the 53 contestants for the Miss America pageant visited the Magic Kingdom, and during the visit Disney asked Jalee Fuseller, the current Miss Hawaii, her thoughts regarding the coming resort and…
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Disney’s 2010 Earnings – Good for Investors or Theme Park Guests?
post by Jack Burgin The Walt Disney Company released its final quarter earnings report on November 11, 2010. The report is, of course, chocked full of large dollar amounts (Disney’s figures start at a million dollars). Others can and already have better analyzed Disney’s earnings. I will try to go behind the numbers and…
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#3 The New Disney Store: Stars Shine at Santa Monica Place
So in my last two blogs, we talked with Disney Stores Worldwide President – Jim Fielding, we discussed design with Jon Endicott – Director of Global Design and Construction, and now, we cover the star-studded Grand Opening of their Santa Monica Place store! I know. I did a blog on the Montebello, CA Disney Store –…
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Times Square Disney Store – The Magic is Back!
Submitted by our New York City DIS Correspondent Photos: Steven Klein When the New York City Fifth Avenue World of Disney Store closed its doors in December of 2009, many people thought their fix was over. Well, eleven months later, the Magic is Back! On Sunday, November 7, D23 held a sneak preview of…
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#2 The New Disney Store – Jon Endicott, Director Global Design
Welcome back to Part 2 of my continuing series, The New Disney Store. Like I said – I’m taking you guys on a journey with this one. Today, I want to give you the opportunity to listen to Jon Endicott, Director of Global Design and Construction for The Disney Stores. Jon sat down with me…